Press Releases

The Greens say the Government is making a political choice not to end child poverty, by not spending an additional $3 billion.

From next year, the University of Auckland will require all first-year students to complete a ‘Waipapa Taumata Rau’ course covering the Treaty of Waitangi and traditional Māori knowledge systems.

Wellington City Council needs to get on with selling its shares. There is no good reason for a council to partially own an airport

The Treaty Principles Bill took a big step last week. Cabinet signed off on the policy, so that the Government’s legal drafters can write the wording of the bill.

Finally, retailers and other sole charge workers will have their rights put at the centre of sentencing

For too long, New Zealand governments have tried to have their cake and eat it too. Any sensible person knows you cannot have modern life without mining, but too many politicians have ignored that fact.

ACT is proud that this government is issuing a Cabinet circular directing all public services be delivered according to need rather than race.

I believe dying Kiwis in enormous pain deserve choice and control over how, when, and with whom they spend their last moments,

Activist councillors are using the cost of democracy as an excuse to grandstand against a government they don’t like while opposing the rights of their communities to have a say.

Labour’s economic vandalism has come home to roost in Ruapehu.

ACT is celebrating the Health Minister's intervention to ensure free GP and nurse services in Hawke's Bay are targeted according to need, not race,

In a predictable move, Labour are again talking about introducing new taxes. There are two clear reasons this is wrong. The data doesn’t exist to support it because we are already highly taxed, and the morality is all about taking instead of building,